Columbus

Examples

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• To discover the East, Columbus sailed West.

  YaleCourses

• We are the explorers of our centuries, I would say, and I'm sure it was great for Columbus to actually find the new world.

  Harvard University

• So this whole period when Christopher Columbus came, how did that change everything?

  Lex Fridman

• What if Christopher Columbus had let fear get in the way?

  Major League: Back to the Minors (1998)

• Columbus found America, Cook found Australia, they were never the same again.

  Occupation (2018)

• In, uh, 1492, a man named Christopher Columbus is going to discover America.

  Unidentified Flying Oddball (1979)

• You know, I feel like Christopher Columbus on the verge of discovering a whole new world.

  Tammy and the T-Rex (1994)

• A magnificent "Te Deum" is being sung in honor of Columbus' achievements and return.

  Fiction book (1992)

• Another miniature flag appeared later that year in commemoration of Columbus's "discovery" of America.

  Academic text (2011)

• In 1492, Christopher Columbus set sail on his first voyage to the Americas.

Synonyms

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Christopher Columbus

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An Italian explorer who sailed across the Atlantic in 1492 and opened European travel to the Americas

is the shorter surname form used without the given name

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Cristoforo Colombo

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An Italian explorer who sailed across the ocean to the Americas

is the anglicized or short surname form rather than the native name

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Cristobal Colon

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The Spanish name for the Italian explorer Christopher Columbus who reached the Americas in 1492

refers to the person generally, stressing multiple voyages rather than one

Compounds

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Columbus Day

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A public holiday in the United States on the second Monday in October to remember Columbus's arrival in the Americas

Surface Forms

Etymology